Fans Can’t Get Over How Different The Cast Of Melrose Place Is Today
Remember Melrose Place? If it had existed in the era of Twitter, it’d be trending every week. It was that kind of TV show, full of drama and sex and gorgeous actors. And can you believe, it’s been almost 30 years since it first hit our screens? What’s the cast up to now? And how have the last few decades treated them?
Kelly Rutherford’s Melrose Place character Megan Lewis had a pretty complicated storyline. She was a prostitute who fell in love with the man with whom she’d been hired to sleep, with multiple other dramas springing out of that plotline. And in real life Rutherford found herself facing a pretty dramatic situation as well.
Rutherford made headlines in the 2000s when she fought her ex-husband Daniel Giersch for custody of their children. Eventually she won 50/50 custody in 2012 – but then three years later she lost it. Luckily that wasn’t the end of the story, and she does in fact still see her kids. Rutherford also continued to act, with two of her most famous post-Melrose Place roles being in Gossip Girl and Dynasty.
Former model Brooke Langton scored a role on Melrose Place as Samantha Reilly just as her TV career was taking off. She starred on the show from 1995 until 1998 and after that plenty more doors were open to her. She was cast on The Net right after Melrose Place finished simply on the strength of her performances in the 90210 spin-off.
Langton is still a very successful TV actress today. Among the hit shows on her impressive CV there’s Supernatural, Friday Night Lights, The Last Ship, Monk and The Mentalist. And you may also notice that the now middle-aged actress doesn’t appear to have changed much looks-wise since the ’90s.
